you are talking about stopping violence in a violent manner and some point someone loses that battle. yes. and that s violently. stops a violent act in progress. no, no. go ahead, dennis. thanks. i m dan. right. i was allowing him to finish your thought before you started yours. i got excited. okay. no. i think it s clear i think it s clear that s what s happened is the reaction is we want to do something. he has no professionally there s nothing there for a hate crime case. they want to do something and coming against the stand your ground. stand your ground has protected the black community from prosecution where they ve had to act to stop violent acts. 33% of the stand your ground cases, they re real stand your
neighborhood watch person who if you look at the neighborhood watch protocols, you are only supposed to watch. not stalk. not supposed to confront. you are not supposed to throw deadly force because you re not trained in the rules of engagement. so stand your ground has done nothing in florida. prior to stand your ground there were no travesties of justice that required us to pass it. all it s done is simply said if you act stupidly, if you act cravenly, and you could have walked away from the scenario before the need to use deadly force, you are going to get the benefit of that defense because you ve taken a life. and that seems to me something that people in a peaceable society ought to try to aspire to. dan, dennis, thanks so much. we understand the governor has said that he doesn t see any need to review the stand your ground law but the justice department is inspired in many ways that it will be reviewing the stand your ground law across
top the hour. i m michael holmes in for suzanne malveaux. let s get you up to speed on what s happening in your world. george zimmerman, the man who killed trayvon martin, will be freed from jail. a judge granting him $150,000 bond. i wanted to say i am sorry for the loss of your son. i did not know how old he was. i thought he was a little bit younger than i am. and i did not know if he was armed or not. zimmerman is going to have to wear a monitoring device, also check in with authorities every three days. we re going to go live to sanford, florida, just a minute or so from now. to pakistan, authorities saying at least 50 bodies have now been recovered from the scene of that terrible plane crash. 131 people, including 9 crew members, were on board that flight which was going from karachi to the capital, islamabad. the plane crashing just five miles from its destination. bad weather may have been a factor. republicans rally around mitt romney at their romney run an
station through early september. juliet, the ball is yours. thank you very much, brian. thousands protesting demanding justice for aun armed teen gunned down in florida, excuse me, by a self-proclaimed neighborhood watchman. the alleged shooter claims he killed the boy in self-defense. this guy has not been arrested or charged and now critics are questioning a controversial state law, stand your ground is the law. state representative dennis backsly was the backer of the law. great to have you here, sir. thank you very much. appreciate the invitation. explain what this law is all about. this is a self-defense law. and actually what it does is it shows if you empower people to stop violent acts from occurring, they will. and they have. we ve actually seen a diminished number in terms of the violent crimes since 2005 and i d like to believe we ve been a part of that. i think what we have here is a situation where individual has
years, i ve stood by people going through tragedy and there s nothing as heartbreaking as having a child lost and particularly under these kinds of circumstances. you mentioned the police and specifically the police chief has stepped aside here. do you think that was a smart move? i do. i think it needs to decelerate and i understand the outrage because nothing was happening and now we see that a number of things are happening and the governor is also appointing a task force to look at our legislation but quite frankly, i think we have a good law. i think there s been some misapplication. there may be some other legislation that needs to be done such as instructions to crime watch, you know, really all you need is a telephone. you re supposed to be the eyes and ears for law enforcement and help them be effective. but you re not supposed to carry a firearm and you re not supposed to pursue and confront people. that will accelerate violent episodes. we re going to continue watching